impact fees

To grow or not to grow? That is the question.

With apologies to Shakespeare, that question seems an appropriate one for the Board of County Commissioners to answer.  If you log onto the Clay County web site (www.claycountygov.com) four words scroll across the top of the page - "Growth, Prosperity, Opportunity, Community".  Without any further investigation, one would think Clay County government likes, even encourages growth.  But growth is a contentious subject among people who live in Clay County.

The population in 1980 was 67,000.  Twenty-five years later, 2005, the population had ballooned to 179,000.  In 2015, 8 years from now, the population is projected to be 267,000.  That's 4 times the number of people in 1980.  All I can say is WOW!!!